We are being accused of violence, even though our action was strictly peaceful, as the images clearly show. This is a clear inversion of responsibility.
Very true. The power imbalance is especially wild. If proponents of psychobehavioral models had done the same thing at a medical science conference, for whatever reason they might have felt, then had been physically handled this way, they would have framed it as violent expulsion and infringement of their rights, it would have led to howls of outrage from other physicians, with accusations of censorship and so on.
The very worst anecdote they can come up with the other way was someone voluntarily agreeing to leave and throwing a cup. Presumably, there is no evidence of that. The imbalance of violence, especially the systemic violence of this model, is total.
And it was filmed. There is video evidence of what happened here. It lasted less than 5 minutes, doesn't take hours to analyze. There is no such evidence of incidents like the alleged cup throwing. And it doesn't matter. It's truly wild how even with experts the exact same dynamics as we see with the QAnon communities are at play. Reality doesn't count. Truth doesn't matter. Evidence is fabricated and cherry-picked. It's the exact same dynamics!
We must also forge alliances with other movements (anti-ableism and anti-psychiatry, anti-racism, feminism, LGBTQIA+, environmentalism, etc.) because everything is interconnected.
This is doomed generally, there is no such allyship, but especially with anti-psychiatry not being relevant here. I think psychiatry can be good. It's bad here. It's never a criticism of who they are, it's of what they do and their excesses. Ideally psychiatry would be a force for good, and not a cause of harm, but that's not the case. This isn't about being against psychiatry, it's about making it do what it should be doing, which it clearly isn't, and the reasons for this are pretty much found in this nexus where chronic illness exists.
They must be granted every privilege, and we must be stripped of every right. This is everything health care should stand against. And yet it's all behind it.